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What is Science?
Fields of Biology
Scientific Method
Characteristics of Life
Systems of Measurement
100
An organized way of gathering and organizing data..
What is science?
100
The study of living organisms.
What is biology?
100
This part of the scientific method is usually stated as a question.
What is the problem statement?
100
All living things are made of these "building blocks".
What are cells.
100
The most important reason to use a standard unit of measurement.
What is to compare and communicate results?
200
This is what you measure at the end of an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
200
A zoologist studies these.
What are animals?
200
A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
200
A molecule that is found in the nucleus of a cell.
What is DNA?
200
Three units of measurement from the English System.
What are feet, inches, ounces, pounds, miles, etc. ?
300
Noticing and describing events in an orderly way.
What is observation?
300
The study of organisms like ferns, grasses, and mosses.
What is botany?
300
The control group is used for this on purpose.
What is to compare experimental results to?
300
The difference between growth and development.
What is growth is getting bigger, development is getting more complex/mature?
300
This system of measurement is based on the decimal system.
What is the metric system?
400
The manipulated variable.
What is the independent variable?
400
Gregor mendel was one of the first to study this using pea plants.
What is genetics?
400
A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.
What is an inference?
400
A seedling bends to be closer to the light. This is the stimuli that caused the plants response.
What is light?
400
2 km= ? cm
What is 200,000 cm?
500
The word 'science' comes from Latin and means this.
What is knowledge?
500
Someone in this field may investigate mosquito breeding.
What is entomology?
500
In an experiment comparing the growth of a plant in two different types of soil, what are three things that should be kept constant?
What are type of plant, type and size of pot, amount of water, amount of light, temperature, etc.?
500
The source of all an organisms genetic information.
What are parents?
500
The length of a foot was decided by measuring this.
What is the King of England's foot?